A trip upstate

I am usually just ahead or just behind the cusp of fall colors at their height. This year I was right on the cusp and I couldn't ask for a more spectacular display of scarlet, orange and yellow in the Catskill mountains of my youth, where I had gone to visit my mother. After she picked me up at

Re: Info on the Economics of the Family, Present and Future?

Try the Labor Project for Working Families in at U.C. Berkeley. Ellen Starbird I'm to appear on a local community college panel discussing the economics of the family, present and future. The other two participants are a sociologist and an historian. I would be grateful for any data sources,

Molly Ivins on Breast Cancer Awareness Mo

And, as Alexander Cockburn and Jeff St. Clair reported last fall in Nature and Politics, the Delaney clause, which banned carcinogens from the food supply, was repealed by Congress, and signed by Clinton on the same day he signed welfare destruction.

[PEN-L:13001] Hey Kids!

Child abuse?: "GT Global Mutual Funds introduces the NEW adventures of Henry the Hedgehog in an entertaining comic book designed to teach kids aged 10 and over about investing in mutual funds. When you open up a GT Global mutual fund account in trust for a child, you will receive, upon request,

Re: Opposition to Privatizing Social Security from RepublicanEconomist

William S. Lear wrote: At the end of last month, Paul Phillips asked about reasons to oppose privatizing social security. Today on CSPAN I saw something I hadn't seen before. A very trim, well-dressed and articulate gentleman, who repeatedly stressed to the audience that he was "a good

Re: Rhizome and Mahler

On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, William S. Lear wrote, in part: ...[E]xtracting meaning from the essay, as opposed to the symphony, is quite some task, something beyond my limited powers, I'm afraid. [] I'm sure the work could somehow be interpreted, brought to

Disgruntled Grad Students

In a message dated 97-10-16 20:40:23 EDT, you write: Yep, I got tired of the same all-too-easy and all-too-predictable dismissal of the old guy as having been right about so-and-so but, as we now know from the superior vantage point of economic theory in this advanced age, wrong about

Re: NYT:For First Time, U.S. Discloses Budget on Spying: $26.6 Billion

In a message dated 97-10-16 18:09:19 EDT, you write: the CIA disclosed Wednesday how much money the United States spends annually for intelligence: $26.6 billion. good heavens -- would that this actually created intelligence, as in original thinking, smartness, individuality

Opposition to Privatizing Social Security from Republican Economist

At the end of last month, Paul Phillips asked about reasons to oppose privatizing social security. Today on CSPAN I saw something I hadn't seen before. A very trim, well-dressed and articulate gentleman, who repeatedly stressed to the audience that he was "a good conservative Republican",

HEADERS EMERGENCY!!!

Sorry, Comrades: If the previous system in which the LISTNAME, not individual names, appears in the mail screen is not restored, and quickly, I will have to sign off of both PEN-L and OPE-L (which, despite my failure to contribute regularly, I do enjoy receiving). I simply cannot have

Molly Ivins on Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Molly Ivins This Is Your Breasts on Organochlorines AUSTIN -- And now for something completely different on Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I use the word "completely" with some confidence, as I know of very few other sources for what I'm about to tell

Info on the Economics of the Family, Present and Future?

I'm to appear on a local community college panel discussing the economics of the family, present and future. The other two participants are a sociologist and an historian. I would be grateful for any data sources, summaries, studies, etc. which might be of use. Please send them to me

Education Is More And More Becoming A Privilege (Canada)

One of the consequences of the anti-social offensive in education is to decrease the accessibility to higher education. Amongst the first victims are the sons and daughters of the working class who are being denied their right to eduction. In Quebec, it was also reported recently that

FW: BLS Daily Reportboundary=---- =_NextPart_000_01BCDB17.864A0560

This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. -- =_NextPart_000_01BCDB17.864A0560 charset="iso-8859-1" BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1997 RELEASED TODAY: CPI - On a seasonally

Re: Marx making a comeback?

It was actually Adam Smith who first summised that labor produces all wealth. David Ricardo, arguing against the corn laws of England proceeded Marx in making that same deduction; and invented the labor theory of value. Ricardo quoted Smith, "The real price of everything...is the toil and trouble